The Chinese Academy of Sciences officially releases its "15th Five-Year" development plan: in its scientific and technological innovation layout, it adheres to the "four orientations."

Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences officially released its "15th Five-Year" development plan, making systematic arrangements for its development goals, main tasks, and major measures over the next five years. In its scientific and technological innovation layout, it adheres to the "four orientations," focusing on important priority areas such as integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, life sciences and biotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, and controllable nuclear fusion; strategic high-technology fields such as optoelectronics, space, information, oceans, energy, and materials; sustainable development fields such as agriculture, Earth and resources, and the atmosphere, oceans, and ecological environment; as well as basic frontier and interdisciplinary fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and geosciences. It has distilled and formed a number of key development directions, strengthening the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of scientific and technological innovation. It coordinates and optimizes the regional scientific and technological layout, accelerates the construction of a "3+4+X" tiered regional layout system with Beijing, Shanghai, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as strategic highlands, Hefei, Chengdu-Chongqing, Wuhan, and Xi'an as strategic pivots, and a number of key regions as strategic nodes, striving to provide systematic scientific and technological support for major national regional strategies.